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The Tatars, 300 years ago, were excellent warriors and horsemen. They would raid the nearby Ukrainian and Russian villages and sell the villagers into slavery.
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
The Tatars, 300 years ago, were excellent warriors and horsemen.
They would raid the nearby Ukrainian and Russian villages and sell the villagers into slavery. In one year, 1769, they captured 20,000 and sold them in slave markets in the Ottoman Empire.
From 1500 to 1700 or so, between 1 and 2 million Slavs were captured and sold off into slavery.
The end of the Crimean Khanate is about as distant in history as the Revolutionary War that started the USA. Of course Tatars don't do this anymore, but some people unfortunately prefer to remember old grievances and raise them again and again.
- myth_drannon 10y agoThat's why when I see photos of the Syrian war, I see so many blond and blue eyed children. I assume they are the descendants of the Slavs(slaves) you are talking about
- frandroid 10y agoSyria is next to Turkey (which is itself populated by a lot of Central Asians; Turkmen are not native of Turkey), which is next to Europe. These two countries and Lebanon are on the morphological boundary between "Europeans" and "Arabs". (This is a gross simplification.)
- casualstroller 10y agoYou have no clue what you're talking about. To begin with, Slavs != "slaves". Learn the etymology of the word and read up on some history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs Once you're done, use Wikipea or Google to look for Indo-Iranians, their physical characteristics and their movement from 4000-1000 BCE ((TL;DR blue-eyed people didn't originate in Europe). Good luck.
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- boomlinde 10y agoMaybe review the etymology of the word "slave" before you jump to conclusions about GP's cluelessness.
- myth_drannon 10y agoOrigin of the word Slave : "The term slave has its origins in the word slav. The slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD." Source BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafr...